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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Also By Kj Dahlen
Bane Returns (Sin's Bastards MC)
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Conclusion
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SATAN’S SPAWN MC
PREQUEL: GHOST FROM THE PAST
BOOK 1: SPAWN AND SPITFIRE
BOOK 2: REVENGE AND RETRIBUTION
BOOK 3: BABIES AND BASTARDS
SIN’S BASTARDS MC
BOOK 1: SILK AND BONES
BOOK 2: KARMA’S BITE
BOOK 3: NO REGRETS
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BOOK 5: LIES AND LIARS
BOOK 6: STONE COLD
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End of Bane...
He stood in the shadows of her house. Like a stranger peeking in a window observing her life, he saw her moving around her home. She was preparing a meal and he watched her for a long moment.
Then he heard someone stepping up behind him. “Who are you and what do you think you’re doing here?” a child demanded of him.
Bane slowly turned around to face the young boy standing there. He was young, maybe seven or eight years old. His hair was a little longer than he liked but it looked good on him. The light brown color was sun faded. He gasped at the boy’s eyes. They looked a lot like his Grace’s eyes.
Suddenly, the boy called out, “Aunt Cricket, can you come out here a minute?”
A moment later, the back door opened and Cricket stepped out of her kitchen. “Dusty, what the heck?” Then she noticed the taller man standing in the shadows. She grabbed Dusty and hauled him away from Bane. “What are you doing here?” She glared at him.
“I had to see you, just once,” he told her.
“Do you know this guy, Cricket?” Dusty glared as he looked between Bane and his aunt.
Cricket nodded. “Can you go check on the kids for me Dusty? I don’t like to leave them alone too long.”
“Sure, I can do that.” He gave Bane a long hostile look. “He isn’t gonna hurt you is he?”
Bane shook his head. “No I would never hurt your aunt.”
Dusty gave him one more glare then disappeared into the house.
“How are you still alive?” Cricket demanded. “I was told you were shot in the face. They could barely recognize you.”
“Obviously that man wasn’t me,” Bane replied. “I was there and I did blow up the clubhouse with Stark inside. But when I thought the threat was over, I began climbing down from my tree and as I was walking away Stark found a way out of the fire. He got a shot off before I could turn around and take his miserable life. His bullet caught my shoulder from the back. It was a through and through. I walked deeper into the woods and I could feel the blood soak my clothing. I found a tree and sat down when I couldn’t walk any more. My thoughts that night were something I never took the time to think about before. I thought about your parents.”
“My parents?” Cricket questioned. “Why were you thinking about my parents?”
“I was also thinking about you. How you were a combination of the both of them. You had your mother’s tenacity and your father’s strength. You were soft yet stubborn just like my Grace had been. You had the street smarts Orrin had and the common sense he had. It was rare to find both of those traits in one person. Usually, one is common but not both. But you were so much more than just a clone of your parents. You had grit, real honest grit. You called it honor but it was so much more than that.”
“Why are you still here? Everyone thinks you died a year ago,” Cricket asked softly. “I buried you a year ago.”
“I know.” He nodded. “Bane Jessin did die a year ago. He died begging his brother and his wife to forgive him. He died admitting he had been so wrong about them, about his life. He never begged anyone for anything but he begged Grace and Orrin for forgiveness for the way he ruined their lives.”
“How did you manage to get out of those woods?” Cricket rubbed her upper arms as if a ghost just walked over her grave.
“A friend was there for me. He helped get me out of there. He set up the body they found that day. He got me to a place I could recover, a place that offered me shelter to change my face, to change the direction of my life and most of all to heal.”
Cricket couldn’t look at him. “We found your will. We went to your house and we took things from it. Things we didn’t know you might want back.” Hanging her head, she admitted. “We took your money.”
Bane reached out and tipped her eyes to meet his. “Child, its fine. I wanted you to have that. The money? It doesn’t matter.”
“Why did you come here tonight?”
“I guess I just wanted to let you know I was still here. You recognized me earlier didn’t you?”
Cricket nodded. “I couldn’t believe it was you though. I thought I was going crazy for a moment.”
Bane nodded. “I wasn’t going to say anything but then I was caught.” He glanced in her kitchen window. “Was that Dusty? My grandson?”
Cricket grew afraid for a moment. Taking a deep breath she admitted, “Yes that was Dusty. He’ll be eight years old soon.” She reached out and touched his arm briefly.
When he looked down at her touch, she pulled her hand away and flushed. Looking away, she told him, “He’s got a good life here. He’s living with his dad and Paige. Paige is good for him and I’m still around. I look after him too. With Gambler, he’s got a man in his life that loves him and will teach him everything he needs to know. He’s got a little brother or sister waiting to meet him in a few months.” She paused and with a sob, she told her uncle, “He’s happy here. He’s going to school and he has friends. It’s not at all like it was when Cordy was alive.”
“That seems like a life time ago, doesn’t it?” he whispered. “My children were too much like me, weren’t they? Like the soulless man I used to be?”
Cricket didn’t say the words, instead she nodded.
“I was offered a do over and I took it. I am a changed man and I intend to make that change. I learned something about myself in the past year. I may not have deep feelings like everyone else but I do have feelings. I found that while I thought I loved your mother I really didn’t. I cared for her the best I could when we first met but I never truly loved her. I was an arrogant man back then. And in my arrogance, I thought just because I wanted her I could make her love me. When I couldn’t I didn’t know what to do about, she belonged to me but I couldn’t love her, not like Orrin did. Orrin was a better man for Grace. Cordelia and Michael were born from my union with Grace but they weren’t born out of love, they were born out of hate. Grace hated me and I can’t blame her for that. She hated the man I was back then. And I didn’t know how to be any different.”
“You said you got a second chance to change your life.” Cricket wet her dry lips with her tongue. “Have you? Have you changed any?”
He nodded. “As strange as that sounds I think I have, changed that is. I think for the first time in my life, I’ve found the way to a softer life, a life filled with color instead of just black and white. A life filled with wonder and beauty and I think I found someone to love me.”
“Sarah?” Cricket smiled softly.
“Sarah,” he confirmed.
“So now what? What are y
ou going to do with the rest of your life?” she asked.
“I may have a plan for that. We’re working on the details yet but it sounds like a plan to me.” He paused and looked in her kitchen window again. Looking back at her, he stated, “One day, I would like to meet that young man, maybe not today or tomorrow or next week but one day. I don’t expect he needs to know we’re related, if that’s the way it has to be but I would like to meet him in person.”
Cricket nodded. “I’ll ask his dad and see if we can set that up.” She dared to step forward and look him in the eyes, “I want to wish you well uncle, with the life you’ve chosen and with Sarah. I hope she can make you happy.”
Bane reached out and cupped her jaw. Leaning forward, he brushed his lips on her forehead and stepped back. They both heard a gasp behind him and as they turned, they saw Raine standing there with clenched fists.
“What the hell is going on here?” he asked in a tight voice.
Bane held up his hand to stop the other man. “Nothing at all. I was just saying goodbye to my niece, that’s all.”
Raine frowned. “Your what?”
Cricket stepped over to Raine and whispered something in his ear.
Raine’s eyes widened as he stared at the other man.
Bane stared back at Raine and after a minute, he said, “I hope we can keep this between the three of us. I have too many enemies that would bring hell to this place if they knew I was still alive. I died in the woods a year ago, please let that man stay dead. For everyone’s sake.”
With those words, he turned and walked away, swallowed up by the ever growing shadow of the darkness.
Chapter One
Lake Ontario, Wolcott New York
Bane opened his eyes and felt the warm body lying next to him. For a moment, he felt unsettled then he looked down at the top of her head and smiled. Sarah was cuddling close to him and he loved it. For so long, he’d been alone and that was what he preferred. His entire life he’d been alone and until she came along, he was all right with that. Now they had been together for the last two years and he couldn’t imagine life without this woman beside him.
His thoughts went to the past, when Grace had laid beside him. Shaking his head, he realized she had never laid willingly in his bed. What he had felt for her hadn’t been close to what he felt for Sarah. He glanced over at his dresser and again, he wondered if she would accept the gift he bought for her. He truly wondered if she would even want it or him.